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Mulroy Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$119k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$378kRecreation & Sports$119kEnvironment$70kReligion$50kHuman Services$44kCommunity Improvement$37kPhilanthropy$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $101k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$783k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RICHARDSON CENTER$25,000
BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND$15,000
ARTS SERVICES INC$15,000
SARASOTA OPERA$14,500
ELMWOOD FRANKLIN SCHOOL$11,000
UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO & ERIE CO$10,000
INVESTIGATIVE POST$10,000
EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL$5,000
HARVEST HOUSE$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
BUFFALO SEMINARY$3,000
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FUND$1,000
STRATFORD FESTIVAL OF AMERICA$1,000
BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER$1,000
THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $5k → 13%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $5k → 13%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
VA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 44 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
30

Total granted

$1.9M
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-11%

Still filing today

64%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NS
    NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO
    2× · 2020–2022 · $145k · revenue +34%
  • AT
    ASOLO THEATRE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +46%
  • ES
    ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • BH
    BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -90%
  • CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -5%
  • WC
    WNED CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Binghamton Philharmonic Inc

The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.

Arts & Culture
2
Buffalo Theatre Ensemble Corp
Arts & Culture
3
Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.

Environment
4
Niagara University

Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives through programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.

Education
5
Ralph Wilson Park Conservancy Inc

The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…

Recreation & Sports
6
Buffalo Renaissance Foundation Inc

To foster a better quality of life in buffalo and the western new york region.

Philanthropy
7
Invest Buffalo Niagara Foundation Inc

Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.

Community Improvement
8
Artpark & Company Inc

Artpark & company fosters a transformative world of artistic engagement that explores the human experience, cultivates creativity, and encourages curiosity. our work is informed by a long tradition of discovery, an expectation of artistic…

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9
Richardson Architecture Center Inc

The lipsey architecture center buffalo (the center) explores excellence in architecture and city planning as demonstrated by buffalo's outstanding architectural heritage. located in the richardson olmstead complex, the center will provide…

Arts & Culture
10
Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre

Challenging, educating and entertaining pittsburgh audiences by providing high quality theatre at reasonable prices, while focusing on irish, english and classical works.

Arts & Culture
11
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
12
Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art

The Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Buffalo and Erie County; the most unlike its peers is A Home of My Own Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
27/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $499,199 · OtherBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA716 SQUASH CLUB: $85,000 · Other716 SQUASH CLUBBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherFOREST LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Other+41 more: $294,200 · Other+41 moreFRIENDS OF THE GARDEN THEATER: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE GARDEN THEATERASOLO THEATRE INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATRE INCIRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO: $55,100 · Arts & CultureIRISH CLASSICAL THEATER COINVESTIGATIVE POST INC: $50,115 · Arts & CultureINVESTIGATIVE POST INCHISPANIC HERITAGE COUNCIL OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC HERITAGE COUNCIL OF …Sarasota Opera Association Inc: $41,000 · Arts & CultureSarasota Opera Association In…BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INCROAD LESS TRAVELED PRODUCTIONS LTD: $34,000 · Arts & CultureROAD LESS TRAVELED PRODUCTION…BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY+8 more: $84,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $145,000 · EducationNICHOLS SCHOO…ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC: $66,000 · EducationELMWOOD-FRANK…BUFFALO SEMINARY: $28,000 · EducationBUFFALO SEMIN…The Trustees of Princeton University: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $56,000 · PhilanthropySHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $32,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $25,000 · PhilanthropyRICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementHITS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$1,073,399Arts & Culture$559,215Education$259,000Philanthropy$163,000Community Improvement$35,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Human Services$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $145,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GARDEN THEATER: $100,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC: $66,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $56,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO: $55,100 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE POST INC: $50,115 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetHISPANIC HERITAGE COUNCIL OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc: $41,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOREST LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetRICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION: $35,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROAD LESS TRAVELED PRODUCTIONS LTD: $34,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHITS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDAILLE UNIVERSITY: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUJIMA COMPANY INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCITRS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOne Symphony Circle Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWEST SIDE ROWING CLUB INCORPORATED OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA HOME OF MY OWN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetResource Council of WNY Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSHAKESPEARE IN DELAWARE PARK INC: $7,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNIAGARA AEROSPACE MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetThe Buffalo Club Preservation Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC CHORUS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO NIAGARA CHOIRS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSTRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT INAUGURAL SITE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Robert & Patricia Col…The Baird FoundationThe Western New York …The Margaret L Wendt …The John R Oishei Fou…Foundation for Jewish…Cullen FoundationThe Ralph C Wilson Jr…Carlos and Elizabeth …Zemsky Family Foundat…Simple Gifts Fund
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY57.2× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation 115319998 · The Baird Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Cullen Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation · Zemsky Family Foundation · Simple Gifts Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mulroy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mulroy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mulroy Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mulroy Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home